April 2015 archive

OF COFFEE, CHOCOLATES AND ‘COCKROACHES’ By CAMERON DUODU I am sure that a columnist of the British tabloid newspaper, The Sun, called Katie Hopkins, must be thanking her lucky stars that a column of hers has drawn the ire of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Columnists of her ilk adore the “attention” that …

TEARING THE MASK OFF THE UGLY FACE OF AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS By CAMERON DUODU In what must count as one of my worst nightmares, a grandchild of mine calls me just after having watched the news on TV and says: “Grandpa, they say 800 people – many of them Africans – were drowned in the Mediterranean …

APARTHEID IS ALIVE AND WELL AND [STILL] LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA By CAMERON DUODU Daily Guide 18.04.2015 They have given them a pejorative name — “Makwerekwere”. Just as the apartheid monsters used to call all Africans “Bantus” — not from a neutral, demographic starting point, but from a supremacist social stance, which in …